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November 29, 2005
Sebastião Salgado
My Friend Martin Fuchs who is back from 6 months in New York invited me to go with him to this openning. I almost didnt go because of the tons of german homework I've been getting. Erich Lessing of Magnum Photos was there and gave a speach just before Sebastiao Sagado spoke. Sebastiao Sagado gave a very nice inspiring speach in English. The photos that were being showed were part of the work that Sebastiao Salgado has been working on for the past 7 or so years. There are photos of displaced children. There were two cameras that were used for this project that were auctioned off the day before. With the money of this project they will be able to plant something like a million trees. With his photography Sebastiao Salgado is able to bring awareness to his fans about saving the rain forest as well as bringing attention to the help this kids need as well. I'm so glad that I went. Not only did i get to see these nice portraits but I also got to hang out with Martin and I ran into a friend of mine that I play basketball with, Matthias Cremer. He works as a photographer at Der Standard, one of Vienna's big newspapers. He recently started his photo blog, -->click here<-- to see it. Remember its in German. So this past week I have been talking to Martin about photography and I've been thinking about it. I love photography and I need to do it more often and I need to expose myself to other photographers of past and present.
Posted by Victor at November 29, 2005 02:24 PM
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thanks!! and you expected pictures of pretty woman. haha. ;-)
Posted by: victor at November 29, 2005 10:08 PM
Hi Victor, that first picture is pretty good! So that's where you went during the speeches... ;-) The second picture - straight to the trash with it, please! Just kidding... you got me! :-)) It was nice to get to know you, Martin and Karin yesterday, I hope we'll meet again some time.
Posted by: Arthur at November 29, 2005 09:41 PM